Spotlight

Women have been involved in the wine business for hundreds of years. We want to celebrate their contribution, not because they are women but because they have produced some of the greatest wines throughout history and continue to do so today. 

Each month we will focus on a Woman Winemaker and a woman winery owner. 

This Month we discovered a unique owner and winemaking team at Casa Lapostolle, from Chile:

The Owner:  Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle is the great granddaughter of Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle, the founder of Grand Marnier, the famed French liqueur.   She studied economics at University of Assas in Paris while Cyril de Bournet graduated from one of the leading business schools in France, ESCP and has an MBA from INSEAD.

The Wine Making Team

Winemaker:  Andrea León is working for Casa Lapostolle since 2004. Today her main responsibility is the Premium wine Clos Apalta. Andrea studied Agricultural Engineering in the Catholic University of Santiago and then majored both in Economics and also in her long life passion: Oenology and Viticulture. After College, she travelled extensively and lived abroad for several years mainly in USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand working as a flying winemaker and also visiting famous winemaking regions.

Assistant winemaker:  Paola Muñoz joined Casa Lapostolle as an intern from the Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Chile. During her studies she specialized in Oenology and her practical worked was done at Casa Lapostolle during harvest 2000. Since then, Paola has been working as Assistant Oenologist at Cunaco Winery. In September 2005 she went to Viña Quintessa in California to take part in their harvest.

Assistant winemaker:  Jenny Villalobos was born in San Fernando, Colchagua, and studied to be agronomist and oenologist at the Catholic University of Santiago. She started her career as winemaker during harvest in Spain, France and Chile. Since January 2007 she is part of the winemaking team of Casa Lapostolle at Cunaco Winery.